The over N2bn Adada River
Dam embarked upon by the Federal Ministry of Water Resources in Enugu state
would be completed and delivered for use in July next year and it would
generate and hold some 1.3m cubic metre of water all year round.
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of
Enugu state who inspected the dam project at the weekend also inaugurated a
massive network of rural electrification project started early in June this
year a few days after he assumed office and executed by the state’s Rural Electrification
Board.
Representative of the Water
Resources Ministry, Robert Umezulike, a chief hydrologist who was at the site
of the dam at the weekend when Governor Ugwuanyi inspected the mega
project and inaugurated a massive rural electrification project
assured that when completed, the facility would power the greater Nsukka water
scheme which has been in the pipeline in the past decades.
To strengthen the process of
enhancing the project and boost economic activities in the vast rural
communities that cut across Udi, Uzo-Uwani and Igbo- Etiti local council areas
of the state, the governor inaugurated a completed massive rural electrification
projected which would help in powering the dam on completion.
Also the completion of the dam
in 2016 and the present completion of the rural electrification project which
would now ease up pressure from other electricity facilities around the Nsukka
zone would further the resolve of the governor to upgrade the status of Nsukka
to a befitting university town.
The people of the three local
council areas thronged Ezi-Nze, the site of the 2.5MVA injection substation
opened for use by the governor who also cut the tape to inaugurate the civic
centre in the community, and the joy of the people knew no bounds when the
governor switched on the light.
Umezulike
assured the governor and the huge crowd that gathered during the inspection of
the dam and explained that the construction was such that dam has the capacity
to end water scarcity in the entire area.
Governor Ugwuanyi,during an
inspection tour, expressed his administration’s readiness to give it all
the necessary support to facilitate its delivery on time with the specified job
quality to actualize the aim of adding value to the lives of the various
communities it is meant to serve.
While interacting with the
governor, the site Engr of the project Justine Ihedioha hinted that the
project would tentatively be completed by July 2016, adding that the first
phase of the project has been completed while the entire project has assumed
30% completion status.
They observed that when completed
and full, it would produce 1.3m cubic metre of water, all the year round.
The governor who sought to know
the capacity of the dam and its benefits to the people, urged the contractor
handling it to deploy adequate materials for unceasing actions on it.
The contractor, Justine Ihedioha,
who lamented inadequate fund as the major setback to the progress of the work
however assured the governor of quality job delivery, adding that all the
preliminary work, including the dam foundation amounting to thirty percent had
been completed.
Ihedioha explained that the dam
has capacity of 1.3 million cubic meters of water supply all year round when
completed and allayed fears of low strength of giving enough water needs of the
target communities.
